F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Boys Quotes, Self Quotes

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

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Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Self Quotes , Requirements Quotes

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Welfare Quotes

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Passion Quotes , Self Quotes

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

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Tags : Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Hate Quotes , Self Quotes

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

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Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Self Quotes , Long Quotes